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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3719208, member: 74282&quot;]I think this article ignores a lot of realities of the current market. For one, there seem to be more auction houses operating now than ever before. There are several aggregator platforms as well as venues like Vauctions, Agora, Biddr, etc that allow anyone to become an auctioneer and, consequently, we see a ton of small auctioneers selling the sort of coins you&#039;d likely have found on eBay before. Look at how many people here participate in the AMCC and JA auctions in one way or the other. It seems to me it&#039;s far easier now to get average coins in a non-eBay auction than it was when I began collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also point out that while the author seems to want to blame social media for some sort of decline in collecting, Facebook is a massive venue for the sale of &quot;average&quot; ancients. You don&#039;t see much of the higher end on Facebook but neither do you on eBay. This may come as a surprise to some but many of the metal detector sellers have switched from eBay to Facebook because private Facebook groups offer a bit more privacy than eBay which is open to all.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also a lot of just average collectors selling their coins on Facebook because there is a massive audience and, perhaps more importantly, transactions can be handled without sellers fees and theres actual vetting in those groups. Fakesellers not only get banned but often blacklisted because people talk and names get shared often. There are multiple groups with &gt;4,000 members and while there is certainly overlap I found well over 10k unique members when I used a tool a while ago to try and estimate how many people could potentially see a coin I posted for sale. I&#039;ve bought nearly the same number of coins on eBay in my &quot;collecting career&quot; as I have Facebook and almost none of those coins were ever listed on eBay. I&#039;ve sold far more of my collection on Facebook and Cointalk because, as mentioned above, the significantly lower fees make a huge difference in the amount of money that eventually makes its way to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t be so quick to write off the next generation. Collecting is changing, sure, but I think saying it&#039;s dying is alarmist and ultimately wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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